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A music blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005.

Curtis Harvey – Box of Stones

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Many great artists produce music that is inspiring without being technically gifted vocalists. Kris Kristofferson and Ryan Bingham have produced two of the year’s best albums while displaying vocals that few would term “smooth”. The largely acoustic solo debut from Curtis Harvey (Myspace), Box of Stones (FatCat), successfully showcsaes the same ability to move the […]

Slipping Through the Cracks 2009 (Round Up and Downloads)

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All these records came out this year and have been piling up on my digital nightstand.  They’re all good too.  Enjoy the downloads, graciously provided by the artists/labels involved. Zach Seibert & the Red Wagon An Americana dream of atmospheric folk and country inspired rock and roll, Learning to Drown is Zach Seibert’s first real […]

Peter Bradley Adams – Traces

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If you recognize the name, you probably think you’ve heard this one before. Heartbreaking melodies and a girl who left you blah blah blah. The same sad tone seems prevalent from the first notes of adult alternative single “You Dance” (Adams’ collaboration with Kat Maslich) to the lead single “For You” and throughout Adams’ work. But you […]

Blind Pilot – 3 Rounds and a Sound

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Man, there have been a ton of great records released this year that can be placed into the relatively ambiguous class of “modern folk” or “acoustic pop”, or whatever. We have seen the records from The Low Anthem, Langhorne Slim, The Swell Season and A.A. Bondy, among others, already considered to be among many peoples […]

The Swell Season – Strict Joy

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I have always been beyond hesitant to call any of my posts “reviews”. For one, I’m not much of a writer, for two, I am basically just trying to tell you about a record that I really like, so I don’t feel the need to dress it up as anything more journalistic and formal than […]

Readers’ Pick: I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers

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Twangville readers picked ‘I and Love and You’ by The Avett Brothers as their favorite release for week of September 29, 2009. After five full-length albums and two EPs on Ramseur Records the Avett Brothers have decided to go BIG with their latest release ‘I and Love and You’. What do you do when you […]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2009

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Move over Bonnaroo.  Step aside Coachella.  With crowd estimates hovering around 750,000 this year, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is now the country’s largest music event.  And it’s free.  Three days, 6 stages, 80 acts with a broad range of appeal, all courtesy of Warren Hellman, a local investment banker and philanthropist.  With that many sets of […]

Lucero- 1372 Overton Park, GIVEAWAY!

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Critics often throw around the title “best American rock band”, usually in relation to outfits like the Drive-By Truckers, My Morning Jacket, or Wilco.  Who am I to disappoint?  So I’ll say it, 1372 Overton Park is Lucero’s entrance into that league.  It’s a straight up American rock and roll classic and I dare you […]

The Band Of Heathens – One Foot In The Ether

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Wikipedia defines Americana as “artifacts related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States.”  By that, the latest effort from The Band Of Heathens is about as close to a definitive musical interpretation of Americana as you can get.  One Foot In The Ether has a little something for everyone who’s […]